It's still Archives Month here in Washington State, and I'm still digging this celebratory photo archive, which offers a bit of perspective on our current transportation challenges:

Early road travel in Washington, ca. 1900.
  • Washington State Archives, used with permission
  • Early road travel in Washington, ca. 1900.

Flooded Clark County Road No. 15, ca. 1949.
  • Washington State Archives, used with permission
  • Flooded Clark County Road No. 15, ca. 1949.

Negotiating snow and gravel ruts on the James Nelson Road near Renton, ca. 1910.
  • Washington State Archives, used with permission
  • Negotiating snow and gravel ruts on the James Nelson Road near Renton, ca. 1910.

Confidential to former Mayor Nickels: If you'd been running this town 100 years earlier, you probably could have survived plow-gate.